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Published Apr 7, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
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Oni Press only has two issue left of its final Rick and Morty licensed comic book series, Rick and Morty: The End (we gave the fourth issue of the series a great review at CBR. The whole series has been a wild ride). Rick Sanchez is on the run from the collective of universes following the events of the Rick and Morty Versus the Universe, and Morty was tasked with hunting down his own grandfather or else all Mortys would be erased from the multiverse.
In the first issue, Morty tracked down some characters that he remembered Rick enjoying. They turned out to be a dead end, but it led Morty to running into the new Vindicators, who are now led by Morty's ex-girlfriend, Planetina! The new Vindicators are now calling themselves the "Vinrickators," and at the end of the second issue, after Morty betrayed them to help his grandfather, the Vindicators traveled to the dream reality Rick had been hiding in, and began their attack. Rick easily defeated them, and trapped them in a virtual reality prison, but after they escaped, Rick shocked everyone by simply surrendering! In the fourth issue, while Rick was on trial in front of a jury of various characters he has encountered over the years (including his own psychiatrist), Rick escaped his body and is now hiding in the mind of one of the jury members!
Now, CBR has an exclusive preview of the fifth issue of Rick and Morty: The End, coming from writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Jarrett Williams, which is out this week, and where the jury has to figure out who of them is secretly Rick!
What is the solicitation for Rick and Morty: The End #5, and what are the covers?
RICK AND MORTY: THE END #5 (of 6)
WRITTEN BY DANIEL KIBBLESMITH
ART BY JARRETT WILLIAMS
COVER A BY DAVE BARDIN
COVER B BY TROY LITTLE
MOST WANTED VARIANT (1:10) BY PHIL MURPHY
VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER
From the twisted mind of Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki, Darkwing Duck) and the unceasing brush of Jarrett Williams (Super Pro KO!) comes a mind-bending, body-swapping, courtroom disaster of Rick and Morty proportions!
Rick Sanchez, the smartest man in the universe, is on trial for his life, and his latest tactic to avoid the gallows is to swap bodies with one of the jurors! But just to keep them guessing, he swaps EVERYONE’s bodies! How long can he evade capture trapped in a room with 12 angry, uh, humanoids? It’s literally a who’s who of the Rick and Morty universe! GET IT?!
$4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE APRIL 8, 2026
IOD: 2/28/2026
FOC: 3/16/2026
What happens in the preview pages of Rick and Morty: The End #5?
In the opening of the preview, we get a basic recap of the shocking cliffhanger of last issue. That Rick had used a device that was meant for the jury to all see the evidence of Rick's alleged crime against the Multiverse together (by viewing the memory of the witnesss who was "testifying" through the device accessing his memories) to leap from his body and into the mind of one of the jury member.
The judge (who, by the way, was also connected to the device, so really should be a suspect, too) orders the jury members to determine which one of them is secretly Rick, or else they will ALL be killed.
The President tries to take control, but he is so abrasive that it throws everyone off. So the mild-mannered Gene steps to the plate, and he takes control of the situation, and is named the foreman of the jury. Gearhead comes up with a plan. He notes that Rick never remembers his name (the absurd Revolio Clockberg, Jr.), so he wants everyone to say it at once.
Obviously, none of them know it, but that's something that we'll see when the issue comes out tomorroww, along with whose body Rick has taken over!
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